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The black polycaon are one of the wood destroying largest beetles at 1/2 to 1 inch long? True/False? |
True |
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Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or false? |
True: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult |
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A lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle? |
True |
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Black polycaon are likely to re-infest? |
False, they do re-infest but they are not likely. |
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Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do re-infest? |
True |
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Can lead cable borers bore through lead sheathing around phone and power lines? |
True |
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Name 3 bostrichidae (false powderpost beetles) |
Lead cable, bamboo borer, black polycaon |
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Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furniture and will re-infest? True or false |
True, false powder post do reinfest |
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Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating signal. What is it? |
Strike their head against the surface they are standing on. |
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Do lead cable borers re-infest? |
They DO reinfest |
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Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and will re-infest? |
True |
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Name two anobiidae beetles. |
Deathwatch beetles and furniture beetle |
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Furniture beetle will attack coniferous and hardwoods and prefer new wood instead of old? |
False furniture beetles prefer old wood. |
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If a home has a problem with flat headed borers, you should fumigate because they re-infest? T or f? |
False, flat headed borers are burprestidae and do not reinfest. |
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New house borers prefer old seasoned wood? |
False, they prefer new wood. |
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Bark beetles don't really bore through bark to start their tunnels? |
False, the bark beetles bore between the sapwood and bark. |
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Do new house borers reinfest? |
No they do not. |
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Name a burprestidae beetle: |
Flat head borer |
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What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like? |
Talcum powder-like |
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Flat headed borer emergence holes are oval shaped and about 3/8 inch wide? |
True |
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Bark beetles are a serious pest of our forest but maybe brought in with firewood? |
True |
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Bark beetles do not re-infest? T or f |
True |
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Black polycaon emergence holes that are about 1/4 inch in diameter? |
True |
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Lyctid beetle emergence holes are 1/32nd or 1/16th inch in diameter? T or f? |
True |
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Will a bamboo borer re-infest? |
True |
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Old house borers do not live in the us but may be imported? |
True |
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If you see a beetle in a home it always means the home needs to be treated? |
False, some beetles do not reinfest |
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Kiln dried wood can help prevent beetle infestation. True or false? |
True. |